Foreword: Special Issue on Repeatability and Sharing of Experimental Artifacts

Abstract

Welcome to this special issue of Operating Systems Review dedicated to the topics of repeatability and sharing of experimental artifacts in systems research. The twelve papers in this issue present na snapshot of activities, results, and viewpoints on this theme. As the guest editor of this issue, I hope that you find these papers to be both inspiring and useful. I hope that by reading them, you will be motivated to carefully think about repeatability and artifact sharing as you pursue your own systems experiments. Several of the papers in this special issue present tools or testbeds that support repeatability and sharing, so I expect that you will discover one or more "new tricks" that will make it easier for you to create and share high-quality, sound, and repeatable experiments.